Beer of Tomorrow

Category: Events

Craft beer in L.A.’s downtown is booming, and there are now seven breweries in the region – from the early entrant Angel City Brewing, to a pair of young operations across the river in Boyle Heights. It can be difficult to keep up with all the beer flowing in downtown, but this weekend you have a chance to try all the Downtown breweries in one place. Read more →

Beer festivals are fun, and it’s a great way to try new brews and hang out with all your great beer-friends, but sometimes it’s tough to escape that feeling of “if you’ve been to one beer festival, you’ve been to them all.” Crowds, usual-suspect breweries pouring 3-ounces of their flagship beers, and bros with pretzel necklaces cruising for tasters of the highest ABV beers they can find — it’s enough to make you want to just post-up at your favorite watering hole for a lazy Sunday instead. But on Sunday, April 10th one of LA’s under-the-radar best beer events of the year is going down at Eagle Rock Brewery, and this year Session Fest is bigger than ever before!

The competition was predictably fierce at the third Los Angeles IPA Festival held at Mohawk Bend over the weekend, and the reigning champions were unseated by a local brewery further cementing its place as a darling of the craft beer scene in Los Angeles.

The third iteration of Mohawk Bend’s L.A. IPA Fest is on Saturday, and it’s the place you want to be if you love hops and you want a chance to chat with the brewers behind some of the best IPAs on the planet.

This year I have the honor of being a guest judge alongside two dozen renowned brewers from across California (and a pair of my esteemed beer journo colleagues in the incomparable Sarah Bennett and singular Tomm Carroll). You can read about the details of the event on The Daily Dish, and below you can see my picks for some of the can’t-miss brews slated to be in contention on Saturday.

Unity is a beer that is brewed annually as a celebration of the hard working brewers who have helped build the craft beer scene in Los Angeles. These brewers come together at a host brewery in a showcase of creativity and esprit de corps. For the previous five years, the creation of Unity has happened at Eagle Rock Brewery [ed note], but for LA Beer Week 2015 the collaboration is moving to the South Bay.

It’s here! #LABW7 has made the move from September to June, and there’s nine days FULL of beer dinners, tap-takeovers and some other wild events! Here are a few of the highlights that we’ll be attending.

By now I hope that you’ve heard of, and bought your tickets for, The Festival in San Pedro this weekend (November 8th and 9th). The Shelton Brother’s are pulling out all of the stops to throw one of the most exciting beer festival’s that Los Angeles has ever seen, but the incredible beers and world-renowned brewers are not confined to the two days of the event. There are ancillary events celebrating the influx of international craft beer and brewers to Los Angeles happening around town, so even if you’re not attending this weekend (and really, you SHOULD be going) you can still grab some special brews.